Michael Hibbard

Tag: quantum weirdness

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Today, as promised, we are going to explore the concepts of the Weird and Weirdness which is borrowed from the concept Quantum Weirdness, or what Einstein called Spooky Action at a Distance. There is one such known phenomenon that I discussed in a previous post called Quantum Entanglement, which is an unexplained mystery where by two particles can be created and sent across the vast distance of our universe, and if you change the spin of one particle, the other one instantaneously changes its spin. This, my friends, is the very basis for all of my theories behind the Waking Dream, the fundamental Oneness of all things in the universe, and the argument for magic, which I simple call Weirdness.

I have taken liberty through my own studies and thought exercises to conclude that Dark Energy is the basis for this weird behavior of our universe. In my theory, Dark Energy is all information stored since the beginning of our universe, which is why it constitutes a whopping 68.3% of our universe — and it continues to grow as the expansion of the universe demonstrates.

In a paper published by my friend Erik Andrulis, “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life.” he posits arguments which could further the idea of this interconnectedness of our universe and all of the fundamental particles. I highly recommend that you give it a read and come to your own conclusions. It is time to go back to the drawing board and look at our wonderfully amazing universe from a different perspective.

The Way of the Weird

The Weird

All things are created from what I call The Weird, it is an energy source that allows matter to be created and manipulated. It exists in a place between our reality, which I have called the Spaces Between. And in the bosom of the Weird all consciousness is created. It is from this Weird that Dreamers and Immortals are able to manipulate the Waking Dream. The ability to manipulate comes from the information and experiences we encounter in our day-to-day lives, forever recorded within the Spaces Between, allowing us to do amazing things. Through this increased understanding of our universe, we are able to make things better — such as moving from mud huts, to homes, to skyscrapers. All of this is inherently magical unto itself, however we have allowed it to simply become a mundane aspect of life. The fact that you can move a glass from the table to your mouth, then back again, is in of itself Weird. And we take it for granted.

In the Waking Dream, Dreamers and Immortals are able to tap into this eternal knowledge and there by manipulate the Dream, using an ability called Weirdness. But rather than just using mundane actions to manipulate the Waking Dream, they are able to return magic to the world, both good and evil.

The Weirdness

Weirdness is magic of the Waking Dream. It is the ability to manipulate things in a supernatural sense. This gift comes from the knowledge that the universe IS a Waking Dream, and is not available to anyone who is not a Dreamer or an Immortal. Being a Dreamer requires one to accept the fundamental principle that the universe is a Waking Dream and that everything within it is connected. It is this interconnectedness that allows the Dream to be manipulated. If you are connected to everything everywhere in the universe, then you can manipulate it through this connection.

Weirdness is like an electrical current that transmits your will to other connected objects, allowing one to act upon it. We do this every day in a physical sense, but there are very few who have recognized that they can do this at the quantum level. All particles only exist as matter when they are required to interact, this is what we have learned through the wave/particle duality phenomenon. An electron, for instance, is not always there. It has a probability to be anywhere in the universe, though the probability lessens the further due to its relative position in the current moment. It also exhibits very strange properties which we still do not understand, but I will have to explain this more with an analogy.

Every single atom in your body is made of a nucleus which consists of protons and neutrons. And orbiting this nucleus, are one or more electrons. Now, here is Weirdness number one about the atom — it is mostly empty space. If we were to compare a solar system to an atom, putting them on a similar scale, with the sun acting as the nucleus, and the planets are the electrons, the distances between the nucleus and the electrons would have just as vast distances as the planets do with the sun. Hence it is mostly empty space between in each and every one of the billions of atoms that make up just your body.

The second Weirdness about the atom, is that the electrons move in completely unexplained ways from one orbit to the next. They simply pop out of existence and appear in another orbit in the atom. It is important to understand this point, they are there one moment, then somewhere else the next, with no time in between. Taking our planet analogy, this would be like Mars and Earth instantaneously switching places in their orbits around the sun. Earth and Mars would vanish simultaneously and reappear instantaneously in their different orbits.

The Weirdness ability in the Waking Dream uses these strange mysteries forces to cause things to be changed or come into creation. This is possible because in the Weird all experience exists, and we all know this, but we have chosen to forget it. But like any street magician, one must learn to fool the observer after much trial and error, until they perfect their trick. This is why a Dreamer is born without knowledge of their inherent Weirdness, and they must find their own unique way to express it, as I explain in my previous post.

Conclusion

This is a great deal of information for one to process, but there are many books and theories the both support and invalidate what I have said. This cancellation, thrusts my assertions into the realm of philosophical debate. It can only be tested one way, one must believe it, and simply do it.

Over the course of my life, I have met people with very strange abilities that I would absolutely call Weirdness. I have met charlatan magicians and fortune-tellers, but I have also met people who have been able to tell things or see things that they could not possible have known or observed in 10 minutes. Magic still exists, as any child will tell you. Perhaps it is time to look at the world around you and see it as a child would, full of wonder and awe and unfettered beliefs. It is only then that you an Awaken your Weirdness and change the world to be what it has the potential to be.

Next time, we will explore the realms of the Waking Dream Universe — The Waking Dream, the Sleeping Dream, and the Spaces Between.

Previously, I hinted at a concept I like to call “Weirdness”. It is one of the foundations of my entire philosophy, because all of the things I have studied in my life always have a certain aspect of weirdness. There are so many concepts that align with my view of Weirdness, but each of them has a slightly different slant to its meaning. I’ve tried to take all that I know about these other concepts and synthesize it into a lucid and intuitive concept.

Beginning with Einstein who coined the phrase “spooky action at a distance” because of the concept of Quantum Weirdness. Quantum Weirdness, in its most simple definition, is the fact that when we try to apply the physics of the macro world to the subatomic world, all the assumptions break down. This can be illustrated by a rudimentary understanding of atomic structure. An atom is made up of nucleus, which is orbited by n-number of electrons which inhabit various “valances” of the atom. They are constantly moving from one orbit to the next, either closer or further away from the nucleus. This is weird because it basically “teleports” from one orbit to the next, without traversing the space between. Imagine driving your car in a three lane highway and you want to change lanes. Instead of putting on your blinker and gently drifting into the next lane, then the next, you put your blinker on and you are suddenly in the far lane. Your car appears to vanish then reappear. This is where reality breaks down. And if we can’t apply the laws of physics evenly to all aspects of reality, what does that say about our understanding of reality?

But Weirdness is something more than just inexplicable actions happening at the quantum state. We must define it as something more attainable and understandable. So the next stop on our journey is Tao. Anyone who has studied Tao knows that it cannot be classically defined. It is the eternal force that binds the universe with order. But, that is not its only definition — it is an abstract view of the force that allows for existence. To my mind, I equate this with Weirdness because it is the foundation for reality, similar to the Quantum Realm which defines all of the fundamental objects from which our universe is created. Tao is also the path, or way — but not to suggest that there is a prescribed path, it is the path you create for yourself. We can also describe Tao with other abstract concepts we’ve seen in both theological, philosophical and fictional writings — the Force, the Field, Dark Energy, the Holy Spirit, Karma, Chi and God. We all sense in some way the existence of a fundamental force or energy that powers all of creation, or enables creation and existence. All of these concepts relate in a similar fashion.

And now on to Weirdness as I’ve defined it — our innate ability to impose our will on the fabric of the universe and manipulate reality. More simply, it is raw “possibility”, because at the most fundamental level, anything is possible. And when I say “anything is possible” that does not mean that “anything is probable”. It is only when we exert our inherent Weirdness that the probability increases allowing something to become manifested. We can see this at work every single moment of my life. Who would have thought 100 years ago we would be typing on a machine and sending our thoughts directly from our brain across the world instantaneously for everyone to see? Who would have thought 100 years ago that we would be planning trips to Mars for settlement? And who would have thought 100 years ago that we would be able to emulate the power of the sun in the form of a bomb? All these things would have been considered impossible, but through years of research and exertion of human will, they have come to pass. The ability for our consciousness to conceive of things that have not existed before is one of the most fundamental displays of our Weirdness. Our ability to dream and make our dreams reality. Projecting our inner minds on the world around us.

Weirdness doesn’t just end with our manipulation of the physical world. True, it is amazing that our brain can communicate, at the speed of light, with all our limbs — our fingers to move effortlessly to our will to type on the computer or play a guitar — but what else have we not unlocked in our own potential? We can leap beyond the realm of common reality and try to hone our skill of Weirdness to accomplish things we’ve not truly realized. We have collectively decided what is normal and what is weird or strange — through centuries of self-imposed oppression. We have imposed rules about what is acceptable thought or practice — such as abandoning magic and alchemy and paganism. We have created the devil to keep our unconscious minds in check, and disbelieve things that do not fall into dogmatic doctrine. If someone exhibited a “weird” ability, such as telepathy or telekinesis, we labeled them as a witch or possessed by the devil. We have actively oppressed our frontier of possibility, and we are not quite sure why.

So the term Weirdness is that inherent strangeness to existence, the things we do not readily understand about our universe and ourselves. It is Weird to us, so we cannot accept it as a part of daily life. But this weirdness exists in us all, but it is a skill that must be practiced. There are many ways to achieve this, and the answer is rolled up in many different manifestations of the same concept — Meditation. When we enter our dream state, we are in form of meditation, where our mind is free to think and explore what it wishes, unhindered by the eternal influences, the common reality. It is the dream state that empowers Weirdness on a subconscious level. But in order to fully realize the power of the Weirdness, we must learn to draw it out of our dreams and apply it to the world around us.

I have witnessed some many inexplicable things in my lifetime, that I must believe that we are capable of much more than this empty existence of working, acquiring, sleeping and dying. We should not need a sack full of cash to enjoy the splendors of life. We should be able to just be wherever we want to be, and see whatever we want to see using only our will. There are people who can leave their bodies and visit far-away places. There are people who can see things that the rest of us cannot see. There are people who can read thoughts. There are people who can move things with their minds. And these are small feats in comparison to what we could truly achieve if we unlocked the flow of our own Weirdness, unabashedly and confidently.

All of us have a Weirdness within us, most of us oppress it or never talk about it. Only you can know for sure, though because we are all One, if One of us is Weird, we are all Weird.